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Thanks Ants posted:office.com is now m365.cloud.microsoft, rolls right off the tongue Which is still positively mundane compared to the new power platform endpoint, powerplatformusercontent.com .
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Thanks Ants posted:office.com is now m365.cloud.microsoft, rolls right off the tongue Well yeah, how else would you expect to access the Microsoft 365 Copilot app?
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I probably shouldn't be surprised by anything now but abandoning "Office" as a brand and instead deciding M365 is the way to go is the most Microsoft-brained thing ever
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Mar 28, 2025 15:50
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Have Microsoft issued any "Return to Office" mandates? Because that would be funny.
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Thanks Ants posted:I probably shouldn't be surprised by anything now but abandoning "Office" as a brand and instead deciding M365 is the way to go is the most Microsoft-brained thing ever Good news: no one calls it that but Microsoft themselves. It's still "Office", and office.com still works (as a redirect.) I don't think they're going to win this battle. They'll have to keep saying "MS365", but we can just keep calling it Office and watch them get red with rage.
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Mar 28, 2025 16:51
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It's like Twitter in that way.
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nielsm posted:It's like Twitter in that way. X, formerly known as Twitter, is like "the artist formerly known as prince". X isn't a name. It's a letter. It's only meaningful if you can provide context to what it used to be. Though there is a degree of former brand recognition that was murdered in the process.
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Mar 29, 2025 12:23
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When Rakuten bought buy.com it was like that. Why marketing departments fail at such easy poo poo constantly never ceases to amaze me.
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Mar 29, 2025 13:25
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BT (British Telecom) started rebranding all their consumer facing products to EE before realising that the only people with any strong positive feelings towards the company were largely older people who had no idea what EE was.
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Mar 29, 2025 13:29
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Wait, EE as in English Electric?
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Mar 29, 2025 13:53
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EE as in what was previously called "Everything Everywhere" which was the result of France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom's UK operations (Orange and T-Mobile) merging in 2010 when the 4G licensing was being sorted out, which then got bought by BT for £12bn. For some reason Kevin Bacon does all their TV adverts
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Thanks Ants posted:EE as in what was previously called "Everything Everywhere" which was the result of France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom's UK operations (Orange and T-Mobile) merging in 2010 when the 4G licensing was being sorted out, which then got bought by BT for £12bn. Kevin Bacon has been doing ads over here for a while now because he invested his money with Bernie Madoff.
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I could swear that I saw a BT installation here in Los Angeles years ago but I don't recall them ever breaking into the U.S. market.
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Dick Trauma posted:I could swear that I saw a BT installation here in Los Angeles years ago but I don't recall them ever breaking into the U.S. market. BT has B2B services across the world, they provide data and voice service for multinationals firms.
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Mar 29, 2025 15:57
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AlexDeGruven posted:When Rakuten bought buy.com it was like that. Rakuten is such a lovely company and Mikitani believes he is the incarnation of Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, and Henry Ford. He has an entire layer of upper management huffing his farts and maintaining his cult. Their attitude to branding when I was (contracted to, thankfully not actually employed) there was a very persuasive sense of "that Malkovich? Malkovich. Malkovich! scene is an ideal image of how our brand must be used". Absolutely tanked the established brands they bought in favour of slapping their stupid wordmark in their places.
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Darchangel posted:Good news: no one calls it that but Microsoft themselves. It's still "Office", and office.com still works (as a redirect.) I don't think they're going to win this battle. They'll have to keep saying "MS365", but we can just keep calling it Office and watch them get red with rage. I wonder if there is one specific executive at Microsoft who's a dumbfuck nepo baby who thinks they're a naming genius, or if the culture of their entire marketing department is broken. They had two entirely separate products they decided should both be named Skype. Nobody knows what the different generations of Xboxes are called. Their cloud based active directory changes its identity like it's hiding from the FBI.
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Mar 29, 2025 18:05
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Terminal Services -> Remote Desktop Protocol -> Remote Desktop Connection, and some more I probably forgot.
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Was trying to find the full list of Google wallet names and former products for comedy reasons but i can't find it and the Wikipedia links are labyrinthian.
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quote:This article is about the mobile app introduced in 2022. For the discontinued service of the same name, see Google Wallet (2011–2018). And lmao 
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Thanks Ants posted:office.com is now m365.cloud.microsoft, rolls right off the tongue portal.office.com stays winning
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The field of marketing is our social security for people who have no talents or skills in life (along with HR). We can't have them live on the streets because they are kids of rich parents, so they study marketing and companies pay them a ton to do some dumb stuff. Many of our graduates go into marketing, so I know how it works.
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ponzicar posted:I wonder if there is one specific executive at Microsoft who's a dumbfuck nepo baby who thinks they're a naming genius, or if the culture of their entire marketing department is broken. They had two entirely separate products they decided should both be named Skype. Nobody knows what the different generations of Xboxes are called. Their cloud based active directory changes its identity like it's hiding from the FBI. Something has to explain how no naming/versioning scheme for Windows has survived more than two consecutive releases. It’s astonished me for decades how insane their naming is I get that it’s harder than everything except cache invalidation but geez louise
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Data Graham posted:Something has to explain how no naming/versioning scheme for Windows has survived more than two consecutive releases. Windows 1.0 Windows 2.0 Windows 3.0 Windows 3.10 Windows 3.11 Windows NT 3.10 Windows NT 3.50 Windows NT 3.51 Windows NT 4.0 They knew how to name versions back in the day. And they've at least been keeping up with the year-numbered releases for Windows Server, although I don't see why they had to make it 2008R2 and 2012R2, and not just 2010 and 2014.
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Data Graham posted:Something has to explain how no naming/versioning scheme for Windows has survived more than two consecutive releases.
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Arquinsiel posted:It's not been that bad, and the lack of Windows 9 is actually due to lovely non-MS devs writing stuff that checks if the OS is "Windows 9*" in old compatibility checks for 95 and 98 systems. I had never realized that but L M F A O now
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Data Graham posted:Something has to explain how no naming/versioning scheme for Windows has survived more than two consecutive releases. New executives in charge rename stuff as an easy way to show that they're "making their mark".
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mllaneza posted:New executives in charge rename stuff as an easy way to show that they're "making their mark". And at a lower level, project leads with no worthwhile contribution to make spend all their time moving UI elements from one side to the other or hiding them behind new menu layouts. Why yes I am loving salty about the Azure portal not working the same way from one day to another, funny you should ask.
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Weatherman posted:Why yes I am loving salty about the Azure portal not working the same way from one day to another, funny you should ask. I’ve found that the azure portal always works the same way for me. Badly.
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Darchangel posted:Good news: no one calls it that but Microsoft themselves. It's still "Office", and office.com still works (as a redirect.) I don't think they're going to win this battle. They'll have to keep saying "MS365", but we can just keep calling it Office and watch them get red with rage.
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nielsm posted:Windows 1.0 This is Windows for Workgroups erasure.
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evobatman posted:This is Windows for Workgroups erasure. Windows for Workgroups is more like Windows 3.10 Professional and Windows 3.11 Professional. Same product line, different edition.
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nielsm posted:Windows for Workgroups is more like Windows 3.10 Professional and Windows 3.11 Professional. Same product line, different edition. WfW 3.11 despite its minor version change was arguably more of a "Windows 3.2" or even 3.5 because it included not just software but significant system-level updates like a backport of Windows 95's 32 bit disk drivers and a native TCP/IP stack. For whatever reason though Microsoft instead at almost the same time as WfW 3.11 launched a Chinese-native version of Windows 3.1 under the name Windows 3.2. NT 3.5 wasn't a thing yet for almost another year so I'm not sure why they couldn't have called it 3.5 even with 3.2 for China. wolrah fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Apr 1, 2025 |
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Hearts because it's a network game!!! Yes sure you can play against the computer, but what if you could play against your coworkers instead? I think they removed the network play in later versions. There is also a Windows not-for-workgroups 3.11, but I actually don't know if it has all the 32 bit disk access stuff from WfW 3.11.
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wolrah posted:For whatever reason though Microsoft instead at almost the same time as WfW 3.11 launched a Chinese-native version of Windows 3.1 under the name Windows 3.2.
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Aunt Beth posted:Isn’t 4 unlucky in China? Maybe 3+1=4 and they thought the vibes might be off so they went with 3.2 13 / 31 are auspicious in Chinese numerology iirc
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nielsm posted:Windows 1.0 I was convinced that Microsoft was going to do with Windows 10 what Apple did with OSX and just keep doing “updates” to it forever, and probably rebrand it as just “Windows” or something, but then they went and released 11 so who knows. I bet the next one won’t be 12 though, it’s gonna be like Windows 365 Series X or something e: 
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Entropic posted:I was convinced that Microsoft was going to do with Windows 10 what Apple did with OSX and just keep doing “updates” to it forever, and probably rebrand it as just “Windows” or something, but then they went and released 11 so who knows. I bet the next one won’t be 12 though, it’s gonna be like Windows 365 Series X or something Windows Co-Pilot book it
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Come on. It'll be Microsoft Copilot Desktop
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johnny park posted:Come on. It'll be Microsoft Copilot Desktop Different SKUs for Basic, Standard, Home, Pro, Small Business, Business, Enterprise, Ultimate, E3, F1, G6, 365, Work or school, Media, Datacenter, Server 20XX, and whatever they're calling their long term support version these days. The feature you want is not supporter by Windows Copilot Desktop Service Pack 1. You need Windows Copilot Desktop Enterprise for Laptops.
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